# Do you support deprecating Sprout?

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/do-you-support-deprecating-sprout/49554>\
**Category:** Governance\
**Created:** [December 2, 2024, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/do-you-support-deprecating-sprout/49554 "2024-12-02T17:23:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tsupportisharmful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Tsupportisharmful](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Tsupportisharmful)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/do-you-support-deprecating-sprout/49554/109 "2025-07-20T14:25:29Z")

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> [@Shawn](#):
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> So which is more important for the health of the network?
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> 1. Keep the turnstile as-is to prove that no extra coins were minted leading to infinite inflation
> 2. Changing the code back so a couple theoretical privacy maxis can move thier coins shielded to a newer pool, thereby negating the inflation check and exposing the other pools to the inflation risk?

As discussed above this is a false dilemma. We can build a privacy respecting mechanism (in addition to the existing turnstile) to protect the remaining Sprout funds from being lost without the inflation concern (because value issuance would be limited to the amount remaining in the Sprout pool).

> [@A Path Forward for Ledger and Zcash](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/a-path-forward-for-ledger-and-zcash/50951/47):
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> Although, I remember that at some point it was discussed that it could be possible to issue the value stored in the sprout pool as a ZSA and let its owners redeem it by proving its ownership. That way you could zSprout in the orchard pool instead of turnstiling to sapling.

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